Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

AL Gaeta, M Lipson, TJ Kippenberg - nature photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of
realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form …

Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, D Barton III, R Cheng, C Reimer, P Kharel, L He… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Integrated femtosecond pulse and frequency comb sources are critical components for a
wide range of applications, including optical atomic clocks, microwave photonics …

Battery-operated integrated frequency comb generator

B Stern, X Ji, Y Okawachi, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs are broadband sources that offer mutually coherent, equidistant
spectral lines with unprecedented precision in frequency and timing for an array of …

RF photonics: an optical microcombs' perspective

J Wu, X Xu, TG Nguyen, ST Chu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, optical frequency combs generated by high-Q microresonators, or
optical microcombs, which feature compact device footprints, low power consumption, and …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

Mode-locked dark pulse Kerr combs in normal-dispersion microresonators

X Xue, Y Xuan, Y Liu, PH Wang, S Chen, J Wang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The generation of Kerr frequency combs in a coherently driven nonlinear microresonator is
now extensively investigated more generally by the research community as a potentially …

Silicon-chip-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy

M Yu, Y Okawachi, AG Griffith, N Picqué… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The development of a spectroscopy device on a chip that could realize real-time
fingerprinting with label-free and high-throughput detection of trace molecules represents …

Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica microresonator

X Yi, QF Yang, KY Yang, MG Suh, K Vahala - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs are having a broad impact on science and technology because they
provide a way to coherently link radio/microwave-rate electrical signals with optical-rate …

On-chip dual-comb source for spectroscopy

A Dutt, C Joshi, X Ji, J Cardenas, Y Okawachi… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy is a powerful technique for real-time, broadband optical sampling
of molecular spectra, which requires no moving components. Recent developments with …